Ward v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Wickersham v. Crittenden (1892), Childs v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad (1893)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wardell v. Railroad Co. · Butts v. . Wood · Jones v. Morrison
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Directors and officers of corporations occupy a position of trust and must act in the utmost good faith. They will not be allowed to deal with the «•orporhte funds and proi>orty for their private gain. They have no right to deal with themselves and for the corporation at the same time, and they must account for the profits made by the use of the company’s assets, and for moneys made by a breach of trust" — citing 1 Morawetz on Priv. Oorp. (2d Ed.) §243, 245; Field on Corp. .174 ; 1 Perry on Trusts (3d Ed.) § 429.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The amended or supplemental petition must set forth all the facts, so that there will be but one pleading.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albright v. Albright
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.